You mean like the YMCA?
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merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoAlso, in places with significant winters (including Northern Europe) parks aren’t an option in winter.
Northern Europe seems like the kind of place that would realize this is a problem and invent some kind of community building which was open in the winter and had a shared kitchen, a stock of board games, a court for indoor sports, etc. That’s certainly not going to happen in the US.
thefactremains@lemmy.world 1 day ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well, definitely not a Christian association.
thefactremains@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nothing religious about the Y anymore. For many years
merc@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The Y is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to put Christian principles into practice
mech@feddit.org 4 hours ago
In Northern Europe, that’s called a library.
The one in Helsinki has board games, media stations for watching films or listening to music, gaming consoles, PCs with design and CAD software, VR rooms, 3D printers and other fabrication machines, conference rooms, study rooms, workshops for fixing things, recording and photo studios, a shared kitchen, a cinema, a playground…
Oh, and books.